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Featness vs Flatness - What's the difference?

featness | flatness |

As nouns the difference between featness and flatness

is that featness is (archaic) skill; adroitness while flatness is the state of being flat.

featness

English

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) skill; adroitness
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    Why want to go afar
    Where pitfalls are,
    When all we swains adore
    Your featness more and more
    (Johnson)
    (Webster 1913)

    flatness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being flat
  • The state of being two-dimensional; planar : planarity
  • The state of being bland : dullness
  • Mattness, the quality of a painted surface which scatters or absorbs the light falling on it, so as to be substantially free from gloss or sheen
  • (oenology) Lack of bouquet and freshness of a wine, through too much aeration or infection with film yeasts
  • (statistics) Sometimes used as a synonym for slim-tailedness or platykurticity